Rotunda Hospital under deadline over public-only consultant care

The board of the Rotunda has until close of business today to give the HSE a list of public-only consultants who have been given permission to continue providing private practice at the maternity hospital.It comes after the Minister for Health Jennifer Carroll MacNeill turned down an invitation for a meeting with the board of the hospital, with the Department of Health saying no such meeting would be agreed to until the Rotunda backed down.For more on this, Shane is joined by Priscilla Lynch, Clinical Editor with the Medical Independent and Brenda Power, Columnist with The Irish Independent.